That This

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Some of these poems are previously published: “That This” originally appeared in The Nation. “Frolic Architecture” was published in a limited edition by Grenfell Press in 2010 with photograms by James Welling. A portion of “The Disappearance Approach” was in the Chicago Review as part of “Choir answers to Choir.” Much of the material in “Frolic Architecture” is collaged from the “private writings” of Hannah Edwards Wetmore, copied by her daughter Lucy Wetmore Whittelsey, now among the Jonathan Edwards papers at the Beinecke Library. In places I relied on Kenneth Minkema’s transcription.

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Thanks are due to Megan Mangum of Words That Work.

Cover and interior design by Leslie Miller, The Grenfell Press
First published as New Directions Paperbook 1189 in 2010

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Howe, Susan, 1937–

That this / Susan Howe.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-811-21918-1 (pbk.)

ISBN 978-0-811-22377-5 (e-book)

1. Title.

PS3558.0893T43 2010

811’.54—dc22

2010041791

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